Feed the Reactor

Feed the Reactor takes the 'watch the numbers climb' joy of incremental games and dresses it up with chains of elemental reactions and a neat prestige loop. It’s the kind of small indie that feels lovingly made — if you can forgive a few rough edges near the end.

Core gameplay is gloriously simple: inject fuel, tweak element ratios, and watch particles collide to generate energy. The strategic layer comes from sequencing injections, choosing upgrades and unlocking exotic elements that interact in surprising ways. There’s a prestige-style loop that rewards resets with permanent buffs, so runs feel meaningful rather than repetitive. Visuals are hypnotic — I caught myself staring at the particle soup more than once — and the UI does a solid job of keeping the chaos readable. Small narrative beats and multiple endings add enough context to care about the reactor’s ‘why’. There’s also a Cryo-Dreaming minigame that varies the pacing, though users report it can be buggy and sometimes luck-based. On the downside, performance can tank in late-game warps where particle effects go wild, and a couple of achievements appear impossible without fixes. Overall it’s short and sharp: a 2–4 hour romp depending on how idle you play, but packed with clever mechanical toys.

Feed the Reactor is a charming, mechanically neat incremental that packs a lot into a small runtime — just be prepared for framerate drops and a few buggy achievements. Worth a play if you like short, experimental idlers.